A year and a half ago, shortly after the GNOME 45 release, I opened a pair of Pull Requests to deprecate and remove the X11 Session. A lot has happened since. The GNOME 48 release addressed all the remaining blocking issues, mainly accessibility regressions, but it was too late in the development cycle to drop...
GDM launches other environments too. I do not think it is about GNOME itself.
A big thing missing from Wayland are all the other X11 window managers (hundreds of them) and desktop environments (like XFCE and Cinnamon) that people may want to use.
to be fair, keeping cinnamon on x11 was a major oversight. its the reason i don’t really recommend mint. who knows what other major oversights are in there.
GDM launches other environments too. I do not think it is about GNOME itself.
A big thing missing from Wayland are all the other X11 window managers (hundreds of them) and desktop environments (like XFCE and Cinnamon) that people may want to use.
GDM won’t be able to launch X11 environments after GNOME 50 is my understanding.
to be fair, keeping cinnamon on x11 was a major oversight. its the reason i don’t really recommend mint. who knows what other major oversights are in there.